In adapting this recipe, I more or less halved it. However, it seemed a bit bland, so then I increased some of the seasonings. It definitely needed a lot of salt and pepper before it felt like a coherent salad. But eventually, after it was seasoned and had sat in the fridge for a few hours, it was delicious. In retrospect, I should have cut the tomatoes smaller, or tried harder to find the cherry tomatoes that the original recipe called for.